Sunday, May 13, 2012

I post articles because I think they are of interest. Doing so doesn’t mean that I necessarily agree (or disagree) with every—or any—opinion in the posted article. Help your friends and relatives stay informed by passing the digest on. In some cases I post things sent to me by readers I might not have posted on my own, to get ideas circulating.

Excerpt: If the election were held today, Obama would win the veteran vote by as much as seven points over Romney, higher than his margin in the general population. (Hard for me to credit. Maybe I know the wrong vets. ~Bob.)

Excerpt: That has a battle heating up over who will provide that care. Nurse practitioners are rolling out a campaign this week to explain what, exactly, nurse practitioners do — and why patients should trust them with their medical needs.

Excerpt: France's new Socialist president [-elect] owns three holiday homes in the glamorous Riviera resort of Cannes, it emerged today. The 57-year-old who "dislikes the rich" and wants to revolutionise his country with high taxes and an onslaught against bankers is in fact hugely wealthy himself. (Another rich, left-wing one percenter. ~Bob.)

Senate Democrats facing difficult reelections are breaking with President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, a sign the issue is politically dangerous in battleground states. Sens. Jon Tester (Mont.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.), the two most vulnerable Democratic senators, have declined to endorse Obama’s call for the legalization of gay marriage. Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Bob Casey (Pa.) and Bill Nelson (Fla.), Democrats who have easier races but in states that could become more competitive by November, have also backed away from Obama’s stance.

Excerpt: In a move that will test your "Social Network" sympathy, shafted Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has decided to renounce his U.S. citizenship just before that vaunted Facebook IPO and save several yachts-ful (heck, planes, too) of money.

Excerpt: California's famously perfect weather and spectacular scenery have not been enough to save the state from an 11 percent unemployment rate, as officially measured, or gargantuan annual state budget deficits. Liberal Democrats control the levers of power in the state and pretty much all the cultural assumptions, but reality stubbornly refuses to give way to the promised utopia. Consider the lead article in this morning's San Jose Mercury News.

Excerpt: The Rasmussen Tracking Poll recently had Romney up 50 to 42 over Obama. At this early juncture, such polls mean nothing—except as diagnostic indices of why perhaps both candidates go up and down in popularity. So why has Barack Obama plunged in the polls these last few days? The Republican slugfest is over.

Obama makes speech in a couple's GARAGE... and even his hosts might not vote for him. By Nina Golgowski

Excerpt: In what could be a disastrous photo opportunity for the President's campaign, Mr Obama spoke to a handful of people in the crucial swing state. The president's 15 minute address outside the home of Paul and Val Keller on Friday afternoon, drew a small audience of neighbours and supporters - though even his hosts said they were not sure if they would vote for him in the coming election.

Excerpt: As has been said on here before: If you’re not on Twitter, you need to be. Nowhere is this point made more readily apparent than the way in which the Tea Party has utilized social media outlets like Twitter, to begin to reshape the Republican Party from the inside out. After watching the Democrats’ sheer dominance over social media forums during the 2008 Presidential election, it is doubtful that anyone could have predicted the conservative base would supplant them so quickly.

Excerpt: Arsala Rahmani, a senior member of the Afghan High Peace Council who had served as a deputy education minister during Taliban rule in Afghanistan, was shot and killed while driving in Kabul today. A car pulled alongside Rahmani's vehicle and a gunman opened fire, killing him immediately. The assassins escaped. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied that his group was responsible for Rahmani's assassination.

Excerpt: Three Coalition soldiers were killed by members of the Afghan security forces in two separate attacks over the past two days. Afghan security forces have now killed 23 ISAF soldiers in 2012. Two ISAF soldiers, who are British, according to Pajhwok, were killed and two more were wounded in an attack today by members of the Afghan Uniformed Police in Helmand province.

Excerpt: The residents of so-called sanctuary cities in California witnessed the trials of two illegal aliens who viciously murdered several victims in separate incidents, a law enforcement source in California told the Law Enforcement Examiner on Friday. In two unrelated cases that illustrate the high price communities pay for sanctuary policies, two illegal aliens -- both with extensive criminal records -- were convicted of first-degree murder by juries this week in different parts of a border state that's actually prided itself on protecting illegal aliens, according to a legal watchdog group that investigates and exposes government corruption and criminal activity perpetrated by government officials.

Excerpt: Supporters of Ron Paul booed the son of presidential hopeful Mitt Romney off the stage Saturday at the Arizona Republican Party convention as he sought to solidify support for his father's nomination. (From observing Ron Paul supporters, I conclude that: A. They are Obama's Little Helpers. B. They are very similar to Occupy Wall Street. C. They have no respect for anyone or anything other than their Cause. D. They should have a Party all their own--after all, Paul is really a Libertarian. --DH_

A woman identifying herself as terminally ill was heckled by Ron Paul supporters at today’s Arizona Republican Convention. As she told the crowd that she only had a short time to live, and asked Republicans to unify behind Mitt Romney, Ron Paul supporters responded “WHY”. ... After his demand was rejected, and the lights were being turned out, Paul supporters began throwing chairs. They then went out to the parking lot and began jumping on cars.

Excerpt: Not even a 2011 Arizona law written just for him could help Roger Barnett. The Arizona rancher this week lost another court ruling in a years-long lawsuit over allegations he assaulted illegal immigrants caught on his land in 2004. "We hope this will be the final chapter in Barnett's attempts to avoid paying his victims the judgment that is long overdue," David Hinojosa, an attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said in a news release.

Excerpt: Identities, in psychodramatic fashion, are sometimes put on and taken off, like clothes, as self-interest dictates -- given that so often they are no longer ascertainable from appearance. If that sounds crass or unfair, ask Elizabeth Warren, who dropped her Native American claims as soon as she at last received tenure and found her 1/32 con suddenly superfluous -- to the apparent unconcern of her similarly cynical but now mum employer, Harvard.

Marine pilot earns honor for heroic Libya rescue---I'​m sure you saw this on the news right?

Excerpt: Maj. J. Eric Grunke, pictured here April 24 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, N.C., has been named Marine Corps Aviator of the Year by the Marine Corps Aviation Association. I'm sure you heard about this in the news right? What? It wasn't on your local news channel? You mean they didn't report about our heroes in WAR doing brave heroic feats? What are they reporting on then???

Minneapolis: Hundreds of Muslims and Leftists march and block traffic to protest bank's refusal to deal with money transfer shops that funded jihad terror

Excerpt :The SEIU agitator said: "Wells Fargo, if they wanted to, they can keep Somali families from starving in Somalia." Translation: Wells Fargo, if they wanted to, they can help Somali families get murdered by Allahu-akbaring jihadis in Somalia.

Excerpt: The US has confirmed that Russian troops will carry out joint anti-terror drills on American soil in May. Reports of the unprecedented initiative had triggered hysteria in American public debate, with claims of the US fraternizing with “the enemy.”

Excerpt: A few dozen protesters attended the speech, silently waving small Jewish flags before walking out, or in some cases, being escorted out by law enforcement. The protesters argue not only that President Obama has not helped U.S. relations with Israel, they accuse him of hating the Jewish nation.

Excerpt: First a Romney supporter was named on an Obama campaign website. That was followed by the slimy trolling into a citizen's private life. Here's what happens when the president of the United States publicly targets a private citizen for the crime of supporting his opponent. (Let's see, how many times did the media catch Pres Bush going after individuals by name because they gave money to his opponents? Ah... that would be ZERO. And you know they would have roasted him in headlines had he ever done so. But it's OK for this President to go after individuals and have his minions slime them freely. Oh yeah, I forgot.... that's the "Chicago Way". I don't care what it's called, it's descending to a new low in national politics, and it should disgust every American of any Party or no Party. --Del)

Excerpt: The state budget shortfall in California has increased dramatically in the last six months, forcing state officials to assemble a series of new spending cuts that are likely to mean further reductions to schools, health care and other social programs already battered by nearly five years of budget retrenchment, state officials announced on Saturday.

Excerpt: About 22 percent of California's eighth-graders tested on a national science test passed, ranking the Golden State among the worst in the nation, according to figures released Thursday. Scores from the 2012 National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation's Report Card, show that too few students have the skills that could lead to careers in the field, educators said. (I am sure this nothing to do with mandatory bilingual education requirements. --Chris)

Excerpt: The Obama agents, through the DHS and other assorted colluders, are plotting a major ‘Reichstag’ event to generate racial riots and produce the justification for martial law, delaying the November 2012 elections, possibly indefinitely, a DHS whistleblower informed the Canada Free Press on Tuesday. (I think this is way over the top. I hope. ~Bob.)

Excerpt: It's a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen, a highly respected Republican pollster, (he polled for George W. Bush in 2004), to various leading Republican operatives, candidates and insiders. It's on the fast-shifting poll data on marriage equality and gay rights in general, and how that should affect Republican policy and language. And the pollster's conclusion is clear: if the GOP keeps up its current rhetoric and positions on gays and lesbians, it is in danger of marginalizing itself to irrelevance or worse. (Romney would gain no votes now by switching on this, would lose social conservatives. ~Bob.)

Excerpt: A senior Taliban commander has issued a scathing statement about the death of Maluvi Mohammad Ismail, the former Deputy Military Council Chairman for the Taliban's Quetta Shura, who was reportedly killed in Taliban infighting last month. Mullah Ghulam Hassan, a senior Taliban commander once based in Ghazni province and a close ally of Ismail, blamed Afghan, Pakistani, and American intelligence agencies for creating divisions among the Taliban.

Economics: The president has been accused of seeking to turn the U.S. into an Americanized Western European welfare state. If he insists on imitating one particular model, we suggest he follow the Swedish paradigm. Sweden has a reputation as the prototypical cradle-to-grave socialist European nation, and the political left has long yearned for America to be more like the Scandinavian nation. But it's looking through a smudged window. With little notice, Sweden has changed. (Now this is really, really interesting! It seems the Swedes have been quietly moving away from being the super-socialist nation and directly towards what we would call a more realistic (conservative?) way of governing. The three definitions that we need to always keep in mind: STUPIDITY- making mistakes, suffering penalties, learning nothing. COMMON SENSE- making mistakes, suffering penalties, learning something. INTELLIGENCE- observing others' mistakes, witnessing penalties, learning something. The Swedes at least have common sense. And their example gives us a chance to exercise intelligence. --Del)

Excerpt: In this History video commentary, I discuss how Obama is implementing the one-world utopian vision of leftists throughout the world. From the pages of our new book Screwed!, I explain how he is whittling away American sovereignty and creating new global bodies to replace Congress and the President himself.

Excerpt: 142 House Democrats — including Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — voted in favor of Chaffetz’s amendment that prevents the Department of Justice from using taxpayer funds to lie to Congress. Another 41 Democrats voted against it, and there were a few members from both parties who abstained from voting. One of those members who abstained from voting was Pelosi…(Wonder if those 41 were the Dems Allen West was mentioning. --Barb.)

Carter abandons the Shah, then Obama abandons Mubarak, and this is what you get. Obama is also abandoning Israel, which is why they are on their own in precluding Iran from developing nuclear weapons. --GBH.

Excerpt: Somewhere deep in the State Department, experts are hard at work putting the final touches on the Obama administration’s strategy for the forthcoming talks on Iran’s nuclear program. Their deliberations center on the meaning of a fatwa supposedly issued in 2005 by Iran’s “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said a full interpretation of the fatwa could have a major bearing on the outcome of the talks, set for May 23-24 in Baghdad. Some explanation is required to understand how comical this is.

DOJ’s ‘Proof’ of Sheriff Joe’s ‘Racial Discrimination’ is Photo of a Chihuahua? Seriously?

Reverend Jeremiah Wright caused problems for President Barack Obama's campaign in 2008, and new details have emerged alleging that the then-candidate tried to convince his former pastor to keep quiet. The retired pastor, who came under fire after an old sermon where he said that the September 11 terrorist attacks were 'America's chickens coming home to roost', said that he was offered $150,000 to stay silent until the election was over. Journalist Edward Klein interviewed Mr Wright and included their conversation in his new book, The Amateur.

Newsweek cover: Obama ‘first gay president’

The accompanying cover story was written by Andrew Sullivan, the popular--and openly gay--political blogger. The magazine even gives the commander-in-chief a rainbow halo.

Obama, Sullivan writes, "had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family."

Surprise! Gay President Supports Gay Marriage

May 10, 2012

Compiled by henrymakow.com

1. Obama's Flip Flop on Gay Marriage ( See YouTube)

In the 2008 campaign, Obama said "marriage is the union between a man and a woman." As a "Christian," he believes it is also "a sacred union...God is in the mix." Does a man of principle reverse his position from election to election? Apparently God is no longer "in the mix." gay sex and cocaine with Obama in 1999. Obama reminded him of "a hustler."

4. Few Gays Opt to Marry - 1/10th of one per cent of the population:That's how many marry in places where it is legal. For this segment, who represent less than 5% of all homosexuals, they are redefining the central rite of 98% of the population who are heterosexuals. Are heterosexuals too brain-dead to recognize that this is an egregious attack on their humanity?

"The most notorious Satanist of the last century, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). [Crowley died just three years before organized homosexual activism took root in America]. Crowley stated that he had gone over to "Satan's side" and wanted to become Satan's chief of staff. Crowley was a bisexual, and his "Abbey of Thelema" or sex temple in Italy was found to have biographical graffiti, depicting orgies that included little children. We document this from his own admirers in our documentary, The Kinsey Syndrome. He influenced the sexual revolutionary thought processes of everyone from Alfred Kinsey to Harry Hay. It is important to know that Crowley's end goal was the ushering in of the age of Horus and the coming Antichrist, the man of sin. He literally signed his name "The Beast 666."

Crowley stated that he was out to "sodomize the boys of England," and wanted his diabolical teachings to be "circulated among the young." He later stated that he would target the USA to push his satanic agenda."

6. Society is Blind to Psy War on Heterosexuals Makow: The demand for "homosexual rights" is really a ruse designed to make homosexual norms dominant in society. This is part of the age-old Illuminati Jewish plan to destroy the institution of family and rewire human beings. (It's in the Communist Manifesto, 1848.) If heterosexuals don't determine societal norms, the tiny homosexual minority, empowered by the Illuminati, will. As this happens, the majority will erode, become a minority and eventually disappear.

7. Ultimately the goal is totalitarian world government.Al Thompson: "Sexual immorality-fornication is being used as a weapon against civilized society. The proponents of it, the media, the theater, the internet, and many other forms of publications, ... know that it will destabilize society to the point that it will be uncontrollable. And out of the chaos and mayhem, the same old crackpot "elites" will take even more control over all of us. They don't need physical chains, they have the mental chains of pornography, homosexuality, and child abuse. They use it on us just as an enemy would use a nuclear bomb on an American city. We can be caught off guard because we think its cute, funny, pleasurable, expression of freedom, or whatever. But the sad fact is that sexual depravity is a slave chain. Once this gets started in a person's life, it's all downhill from there."

Echoes of ‘67: Israel unites

In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded the Straits of Tiran (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the final destruction of Israel.

May ’67 was Israel’s most fearful, desperate month. The country was surrounded and alone. Previous great-power guarantees proved worthless. A plan to test the blockade with a Western flotilla failed for lack of participants. Time was running out. Forced into mass mobilization in order to protect against invasion — and with a military consisting overwhelmingly of civilian reservists — life ground to a halt. The country was dying.

UPDATE: Listen to an updated report on this story via podcast HERE
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Last week, the agenda-driven, drive-by media trashed Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain with unsubstantiated and poorly sourced sexual innuendo.
This week, let’s all talk about Democrat President Barack Obama being gay, him sexually harassing male actor Kal Penn, and his frequenting of Chicago gay bathhouse “Man’s Country” — using the Left’s established precedent for journalistic integrity when it comes to rumor and gossip.

This past Tuesday in Indiana, the Tea Party shocked the GOP Establishment in a Senate race when Richard Mourdock defeated moderate Richard Lugar. This coming Tuesday - just 5 days from now - here in the Nebraska Republican Primary, we can do it again. But I need your help.

My name is Deb Fischer, and I am running for United States Senate here in Nebraska, to fill the seat being vacated by Ben "Cornhusker Kickback" Nelson. The Republican establishment got behind my more moderate opponent early, but my message of commonsense conservatism has resonated.

Now we're in a dead heat in all the polls. To top it all off, two days ago, Gov. Sarah Palin endorsed me! Here's what Gov. Palin and her husband Todd said:

Obama Campaign Adviser Longoria: Mexican People Occupied by USBreitbart.comAppearing on HBO's "Real Time" actress and activist Eva Longoria explained the distinction between Cuban-Americans and Mexican-Americans. Wonder if President Obama agrees with her characterization of America's expansion into the Southwest in the 19th century.Read the Full Story

President Obama's Former Doctor Claims That The President Lacks Passion, Feeling And HumanityBy Jarrett StepmanHumanEvents.com

In a revealing new book, The Amateur, author Edward Klein interviews President Barack Obama’s physician, Dr. David Scheiner, MD, who blasts the president’s health care plan and says that President Obama has an “academic detachment” that he could never break through.

"The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution." Vernon A. Walters, retired army lieutenant general, intelligence officer and diplomat

In a speech before a joint session of the U. S. Congress on September 11th, 1990 regarding the military build-up to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, then President George H. W. Bush said this:

"We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective -- anew world order-- can emerge: a new era -- freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony. A hundred generations have searched for this elusive path to peace, while a thousand wars raged across the span of human endeavor. Today that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we've known. A world where the rule of law supplants the rule of the jungle. A world in which nations recognize the shared responsibility for freedom and justice. A world where the strong respect the rights of the weak. This is the vision that I shared with President Gorbachev in Helsinki. He and other leaders from Europe, the Gulf, and around the world understand that how we manage this crisis today could shape the future for generations to come."